Press Conference by the President  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Please be seated.  Fancy digs you got here.  Thanks for your hospitality.  It's good to visit with you.  I look forward to taking some of your questions.

Is Tomorrow Doomsday?  —  Asa Eslocker Reports:  —  While no extra safeguards are in place, U.S. law enforcement are not ignoring the possible significance of tomorrow's date, August 22, a date that marks an important historic event on the Islamic calendar.

British Authorities Charge 11 in Bomb Plot  —  Authorities Find Bomb Equipment and "Martyrdom" Tapes  —  British authorities today announced terrorism and murder-conspiracy charges against 11 people in the alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, saying their searches since Aug. 10 …

Poll: Opposition to Iraq war at all-time high  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.  —  Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor …

Hizbollah pushes past guards in show of force  —  Hizbollah mourners on a funeral parade shoved aside anti-tank barriers at a United Nations base in Lebanon yesterday in a demonstration of their new political strength.  —  The party had been told it would be allowed to bury three "martyrs" …

Late Nite FDL: Faster, Pantywaist!  Shill!  Shill!  —  Ladies and gentlemen, meet Dan Gerstein, Joe Lieberman's director of media relations and Public Enema No. 1.  —  This very enlightening piece at LamontBlog lays out a list of his crimes, in order, and one has to wonder, exactly …

President Bush Holds a News Conference  —  SPEAKER: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES  —  BUSH: Thank you all.  Please be seated.  —  Fancy digs you got here.  —  Thanks for your hospitality.  It's good to visit with you.  I look forward to taking some of your questions.

Judge drops Padilla terror charge  —  Padilla, codefendants faced double jeopardy, ruling says  —  MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal judge in Miami on Monday dismissed a terror count against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen once identified as a "dirty bomb" suspect and detained as an "enemy combatant."

Europeans Delay Decision on Role Inside Lebanon  —  The ruins of southern Beirut Sunday, after being pounded by Israeli airstrikes for a month.  Arab nations promised reconstruction aid.  —  The shaky, United Nations-brokered cease-fire in Lebanon suffered another blow on Sunday …

British Law Against Glorifying Terrorism Has Not Silenced Calls to Kill for Islam  —  From his home on the northwest edge of this city, Muhamad al-Massari runs a Web site that celebrates the violent death of British and American soldiers.  It is visited by tens of thousands of people every day, he said.

Bush Now Says What He Wouldn't Say Before War: Iraq Had 'Nothing' To Do With 9/11  —  President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his "freedom agenda" and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11.

Dangers await Lebanon returnees  —  When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.  —  The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next …

Calendars show Armitage met reporter  —  WASHINGTON - Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.

Sunday school teacher dumped for being female  —  WATERTOWN, New York (AP) — The minister of a church that dismissed a female Sunday School teacher after adopting what it called a literal interpretation of the Bible says a woman can perform any job — outside of the church.

The Backlash of Scarborough's "Is Bush an 'Idiot'?"  —  Following yesterday's article in the Washington Post about Scarborough's segment "Is Bush an Idiot?", Joe decided to go back to that question tonight and defend his segment.  —  Video - WMV Video - QT  —  Terry Holt seemed to be rather upset with the whole "idiot" thing.

Hip-hopper sings Steele praise  —  Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons will be the host of a campaign fundraiser Thursday for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's run for U.S. Senate.  —  The fundraiser for Mr. Steele, a Republican who would be the state's first black U.S. senator if elected …